Pauley Perrette and NCIS’s wardrobe honcho Rachel Good picked their favorite Abby looks.
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All of the agent characters of NCIS have very strict rules of dress, but not Abby Sciuto.
Her outlandish style, unconstricted by traditional professionalism or the demands of fieldwork, has come together thanks to the actor who plays her, Pauley Perrette, and NCIS's costume supervisor, Rachel Good.
Standing in "Abby's closet" — a small room whose wardrobe contents have spilled out into the hallway — Perrette and Good finished each other's sentences as they discussed the hours and hours they've both spent talking about What Abby Would Wear.
"It's morphed over the years," Perrette said, both as she and Good have learned more about the character and as Perrette's gotten more comfortable prioritizing comfort. ("If her feet aren't seen, she'll wear slippers," Good said — the costume supervisor takes the tags out of Abby's clothes so they don't itch Perrette and puts insoles in all of Abby's very chunky boots.)
Abby used to wear more pants, and now she wears more dresses (which are more weather-versatile — consider that the show is set on the East Coast and the show is filmed in the decidedly less chilly Santa Clarita, California); she used to wear more black, and now she wears colors.
"At a certain point, we started thinking of Abby as an anime, and when we realized that, we went to color as well," Good said. "She never ages — she's like this cartoon," Perrette said, explaining the character's aesthetic. Perrette even famously adopted an extremely time-consuming process to dye her hair black after she developed a severe allergy to the hair dye she'd used in the past because Abby cannot alter her hair color, the actor said. "You don't want that character to suddenly change — you don't want Charlie Brown with long hair."
With that in mind, she and Good save just about everything Abby wears, which is why this closet is so packed, and why it has so many shoes.
So. Many. Shoes.
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It's odd how conservative some of Abby's clothes look in her closet — a dress from Kmart had no edge on a hanger, but somehow with the addition of cuffs, black hair, tattoos, and an Abby je ne sais quoi, a simple item could look punk.
"It's like Christmas morning when I go down to set," Good said. "It's always better than I imagine."
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